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The researcher used the strategy of environment education to participatory school design. By the means of Nine-Years Joint Curriculum incorporated School-Based Curriculum Development. Tried to find the real needs of the space in the school and kicked off a series of participatory activities. From September 2001 to January 2002, the whole members in school spent all semester to promote the curriculum named “The Gate” in Elementary School of Taipei Municipal Teacher College. The teachers and students were led to the circumstance in direct participatory courses. In use of the collecting opinions from students and the new gate designing competition found present space problems and redefined the power of the space in school.
In process of the action we performed “Top-Down” of the resources control and “Bottom-Up” of cooperation with other teachers. Built the new work relationship with teachers, so as to participate in this action. Informal work group broke the ordinary estrangement among every field. From confirming the common issue to the designing project finished the researcher observed and wrote down the changes in circumstance to correct the action strategy. Finally, brought up a specific idea to solve the real problems of school environment.
Going deep into the research place and taking down the whole action process are the methods of action research. The real feelings in circumstance developed the action models and steps. As the more participatory members and the more complicated action models can affect the deeper level problems. For clearing the problems and analyzing the circumstance the researcher defined two stages, eight steps of the action. These things including important matters, attitude, behaviors of school, actions of professional group and so on, will affect the whole process. To build the interaction relationship makes the action recycle and extend.
Analyze the mechanism, relationship and influences of action models to bring up five strategies:
1.Open Participatory
2.The role of stairs
3.Good competition
4.Merge Relationship
5.Handle the resources
And give some suggestions for other participatory school design in the future.
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